Korean War, USAF Bombing Railroad Bridges
Caption: "Astride the target. 500 pound parachute bombs descend slowly straddling the three rail and highway bridges in an enemy held sector of Communist Korea. They were dropped by fast, low-flying B-26s of the Far East Air Force's 452nd Light Bomb Wing in a program of interdiction bombing, designed to keep the enemy at the front from receiving his supplies and equipment. Parachutes slow the bomb's descent so that the light bombers will have time to clear the area before debris fills the air." The first major strategic bombing campaign against North Korea, begun in late July 1950,The USAF dropped 625 tons of bombs on North Korea; two weeks later, the daily tonnage increased to some 800 tons. After the Chinese intervention in November, General MacArthur ordered the increased bombing campaign on North Korea, including incendiary attacks against their arsenals, communications centers, bridges, and railroad lines. The objective was to devastate military and industrial targets as well as to demoralize the enemy civilian population. warplanes dropped more napalm and bombs on North Korea than they did during the whole Pacific campaign of World War II. As a result, almost every substantial building in North Korea was destroyed.
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